Friday's event was missing a number of both speed and technical specialists, including overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher.

Muffat-Jeandet was 27th on the downhill leg, 2.5 seconds adrift of leader Vincent Kriechmayr of Austria while Trikhichev was 29th.

However, Muffat-Jeandet's slalom time of 49.08 seconds was nearly a full second quicker than any of his rivals as he won with a combined time of two minutes 35.29 seconds, 0.96 seconds ahead of Trikhichev.